I ordered from Amazon. They delivered on time. The end.

"When faced with a tradeoff, the answer is clear and simple: security above all else." I guess it is Linux only in Microsoft from now on. Unless they are lying. Again.

El Dorado is an obsolete standard for creating CD-ROMs. When a game was ready to ship, it would be placed on a gold CD. This was known an "going gold". The CD was often made of solid gold, which allowed better quality copies to be made because the data could be transferred coherently over oxygen free cables. Once you had gone gold, you could sell millions of copies. Of course, since we were all still on the gold standard back then, you could actually also swap the dollars you received for physical ingots. So the term "modern El-Dorado" suggests a modern version of getting lots of gold.

I think it's safe to ignore their opinion on matters of science...

But it's got what plants crave!

Under Victorian (where the injured party lives) law, there is no requirement to show malice to succeed in a defamation suit. The standard applied is one of serious harm. And there is already precedent that operator of an online platform is liable even if they had no intent.

If more than half of people have a BMI > 25 (a suspiciously round number), and average life expectancy is still going up, what would a scientist conclude?

Given that the author and the bank were both in the UK, I feel strangely comforted that Team America World Police would get involved. Protip: The UK does have state borders but they are quite different to US ones. You also may be shocked to hear that the UK has a distinct legal system to the US. Intolerable! Maybe the US should bomb them into democracy?

Given that it was Lloyds Bank is in the UK, the last thought of the FBI agents as their van sinks beneath the waves will likely be: I wish I paid more attention in geography class...

I just got back from Napoli and Roma. As expected, there are no Starbucks stores in those cities. Why would Italians drink that crap when a real espresso is cheap and readily available?

The aliens.

What is this newspaper you speak of?

So make like a tree and get out of here.

Also, the mandate comes with a guarantee to be able to sell excess power at predetermined prices for the next 10 years.

Note that this mandate only applies to Tokyo-to which makes up about one third of the Tokyo metropolitan area.